Matthew Singer writes about movies, music and podcasts for Time Out – a continuation of two decades spent analysing, obsessing over and occasionally making fun of popular culture. Previously, he served as the Arts & Culture Editor at Willamette Week, a Pulitzer Prize-winning alt-weekly newspaper in Portland, Oregon, where he wrote about forgotten schlock-horror movie directors, interviewed Fred Armisen behind a dumpster, won national awards for music and profile writing, and once taste-tested dog beer. He currently lives in Tucson, Arizona, with his wife, son and two cats, and spends way too much of his free time thinking about fantasy basketball.
Matthew Singer

Matthew Singer

Film writer and editor

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The 100 best thriller movies of all time (updated for 2026)

The 100 best thriller movies of all time (updated for 2026)

Updated for 2026: Welcome to the canon, Uncut Gems! It took a few years to allow the then-united Safdie brothers’ high-stress rollercoaster to truly sink in, but once we stopped hyperventilating, it became clear that it’s one of the all-time great thrillers, even if ‘thriller’ seems, in its case, too weak a word. Will Josh Safdie’s Marty Supreme eventually join it? Time will tell. What makes a great thriller? Well, let’s see. Are your palms sweaty? Your teeth clenched? Is your heart pumping and your leg shaking uncontrollably? If so, the chances are that the movie you’re watching is doing its job. When done right, a thriller provokes a physical response more than any other genre, bar horror. Exactly how it initiates those reactions, however, varies greatly. In the pantheon of the best thrillers ever made, you’ll find murder, political intrigue, espionage, conspiracy, manipulation, gaslighting, and, of course, lots and lots of crime. But as a category of movie, the thriller is also loosely defined – within the genre, you’ll find examples of science fiction, horror, heists, action, even comedy, along with the ever-nebulous ‘psychological thriller’ subdivision. In other words, the thriller contains multitudes. But the best of them will always draw you in, make you sweat and leave you breathless. Here are the 100 greatest thrillers ever made. Written by Abbey Bender, Joshua Rothkopf, Yu An Su, Phil de Semlyen, Tom Huddleston, Andy Kryza, Tomris Laffly & Matthew Singer RECOMMENDED
The 100 best horror movies of all time (updated for 2025)

The 100 best horror movies of all time (updated for 2025)

Updated for 2025: After a banner few years for the horror genre, several recent films have managed to claw their way into our latest update: 2023’s Talk To Me, which remixes genre tropes into something fresh, frightening and zeitgeisty; 2024’s The Substance, easily the most disgusting movie ever nominated for a Best Picture Oscar; and 2025’s Sinners, a blockbuster smash that’s far from being just a ‘vampire movie’, while being an extremely awesome vampire movie at the same time. We have also moved Ari Aster's disturbing supernatural drama Hereditary into the top 12, owing to the influence it has exerted on several films to come after exploring grief and buried family secrets. Cinemagoers love a good scare. That much is evident these days from the commercial and critical success of the horror genre: in 2025 alone, the latest instalments of The Conjuring, Final Destination and The Black Phone franchises are among the highest-grossing movies of the year, while wholly original stories like Sinners and Weapons are legitimate box-office phenoms. And that’s not even to mention leftfield Halloween-friendly smashes over the last decade, like A Quiet Place, Hereditary and basically everything Jordan Peele has done.   It’s crazy to think, then, that not long ago, horror was thought of as a euphemism for ‘schlock’. If you were alive at the height of the VHS era, you know it wasn’t totally unfounded. Churning out formulaic slashers and monster movies became a way for hacks and hucksters t
The best Christmas movies of all time, updated for 2025

The best Christmas movies of all time, updated for 2025

// (function() { function initPlayPilot() { if (!window.PlayPilotLinkInjections) { // If the library isn't loaded yet, wait a moment and try again setTimeout(initPlayPilot, 100); return; } window.PlayPilotLinkInjections.initialize({ token: 'dGkJiURlzJ8aZLrjWchujyZAgqRgccqT' }); } // Run the function immediately initPlayPilot(); })(); // It’s easy to be a Scrooge about Christmas movies, especially these days. Streaming platforms have shamelessly muscled into the Hallmark market, churning out quick, cheap holiday romcoms with C-list casts every year, hoping to land on something so irresistibly cheesy it briefly becomes a seasonal phenomenon. Put that cynicism aside, however, and most of us can admit that we all have at least one movie we return to every December – the one that allows us to embrace nostalgia unapologetically and lets us know that the most wonderful time of the year has arrived.  It doesn’t have to be schmaltzy and saccharine, either. Maybe it’s a golden era classic like It’s a Wonderful Life or Miracle on 34th Street. Maybe it’s something more modern and goofy, like Elf or Home Alone. Maybe it’s raunchy and rude, like Bad Santa or Christmas Vacation, or just plain dark, like Black Christmas. That full range of yuletide cheer can be found on this list of the best holiday movies ever made. No matter what kind of Christmas movie you prefer, you’ll find one that warms your core like a c
The 100 best TV shows of all time you have to watch (updated January 2026)

The 100 best TV shows of all time you have to watch (updated January 2026)

Updated for 2026: Whatever you think of Netflix’s theatrical strategy, it continues to produce some of television’s most formally daring works, including Adolescence, a hard-to-watch but impossible to ignore limited series about an unimaginable crime. On the other end of the spectrum, there’s HBO’s hilariously profane The Righteous Gemstones, which stuck the landing in 2025 with its final season. In addition, we have moved Andor into the top 20 after its astounding second and final season.  Television used to be considered one of the lowest forms of entertainment. It was derided as ‘the idiot box’ and ‘the boob tube’. Edward R Murrow referred to it as ‘the opiate of the masses’, and the phrase ‘I don’t even own a TV’ was considered a major bragging right.  A lot has changed. Television is now the dominant medium in basically all of entertainment. The shift in perception is widely credited to the arrival of The Sopranos, which completely reinvented the notion of what a TV show could do. But that doesn’t mean everything that came before is primordial slurry. While this list of the greatest TV shows ever is dominated by 21st century programs, from The Wire to Succession to Adolescence, there are many shows that deserve credit for laying the groundwork for this current golden age.  Chiseling them down to a neat top 100 is difficult, so we elected to leave off talk shows, variety shows and sketch comedy, focusing on scripted, episodic dramas, comedies and miniseries. So don’t touc
The 100 best movies of all time (updated January 2026)

The 100 best movies of all time (updated January 2026)

Great movies were made to be debated. All right, maybe that’s not their primary function, but all art deserves to be argued over. If you’re passionate about something, you’re going to feel compelled to fiercely defend your favourites and shout down whatever you think is undeserving. Inflaming public discussion is one of the reasons we’ve put together this list of the greatest films ever made. It gets you thinking, and, when reasoned and civil enough, perhaps rethinking your own opinion.   It seems like a particularly good time to get the discussion going, too, given that movies are, slowly but surely, inching back toward the center of popular culture. Young people are going to cinemas again, particularly for repertory screenings, and making hits of original movies from fresh filmmakers like Ryan Coogler's Oscar-record-breaking Sinners. Letterboxd is growing in usage, and the Criterion closet is all over social media. New cinephiles are being made every day, and we’ve always thought of this list mostly as an educational tool for burgeoning film buffs. It covers a lot of ground: over 100 years, multiple countries, and just about every genre imaginable. So let’s get talking – and most importantly, watching.   Jump to list: 100-91 |  90-81 | 80-71 | 70-61 | 60-51 | 50-41 | 40-31 | 30-21 | 20-11 | 10-1 How we chose our 100 best movies of all time Admittedly, the process is not an exact science. Mostly, it involves a bunch of arguing, whittling and deal-making amongst Time Out’s mo
The Best Movies of 2026 – Updated February 2026

The Best Movies of 2026 – Updated February 2026

And we’re off. In most years, it takes a few months to assemble a list of the best movies of the year so far where the bar for quality isn’t lowered into the Earth’s core. The first quarter of the release calendar is typically where studios toss their tax writeoffs, but to this point, 2026 has outstripped expectations. In how many other years have we gotten a killer horror sequel like 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple, a sharp, gross Sam Raimi return-to-form, a Gus Van Sant thriller and one of the best actor-to-director transitions in recent memory, all before the calendar even flips over to March? And that’s to mention some of the smaller gems that have already popped up. As usual, this post will be updated throughout the year as highlights arrive – and there is bound to be a lot of them, between Project Hail Mary, Steven Spielberg’s Disclosure Day and Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey, all arriving in the first half of 2026 alone. As you’ll see below, though, we’re already off to a good start. May we say that movies are
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The Best Movies of 2025 – Updated December 2025

The Best Movies of 2025 – Updated December 2025

From winter blockbusters to festival sleepers, these are the movies our critics think define 2025. Expect prestige dramas, horror gems, wild indies and some surprise streaming hits – all watched and ranked by Time Out’s film team. What even was the year in movies? A roller coaster is the most obvious cliche, full of exhilarating successes, puzzling disappointments and news stories that’ve left us wondering if there’s even going to be much of a movie industry left in the next few years. Artistically, it was a top-heavy 12 months, producing one surefire Best of the Decade candidate, with a few others not far behind, then a vast middle-class of films that max out at ‘very good’. As always, though, if you’re willing to do the work, you’ll find dozens of small and medium-sized gems to fill you with hope for the future of moviemaking as an artform, no matter what happens to the business itself. Here are the movies that made us gasp, swoon and shout the loudest in 2025. Quick Picks: 2025’s best films by genre: 😂 Best comedy: The Naked GunÂ đŸ˜± Best horror movie: Weapons đŸ„‹ Best action movie: One Battle After Another🎭 Best drama: Nickel BoysđŸȘ† Best family film: Flow
The 100 most romantic films of all time (updated for 2026)

The 100 most romantic films of all time (updated for 2026)

Romance may be dead in the real world, but in cinema, it’ll live forever. Whether it’s classic and stormy like Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights, modern and subdued like Celine Song’s Past Lives or hot and horny like Heated Rivalry, love is simply too elemental of an emotion for filmmakers to ever abandon. Even if you’ve never, say, robbed a bank with your loved one or stood by your sweetheart as they transformed into a hideous monster, the best romantic films make you understand and sympathise with the decisions of those under love’s spell – because one way or another, we’ve all been there.   There are so many movies about love in all its complications that ranking the greatest of them is a major challenge. To help us curate this list, we chatted to more than 100 filmmakers, actors and writers, from The Notebook author Nicholas Sparks to Notting Hill director Richard Curtis to our own Time Out scribes. We even got Miss Piggy to chime in. Whether you prefer comedies or dramas, horror or sci-fi, we’re sure you’ll find the following list of the 100 greatest romantic movies ever speaks to your own heart as well. Written by Cath Clarke, Dave Calhoun, Tom Huddleston, Catherine Bray, Trevor Johnston, Andy P Kryza, Guy Lodge, Phil de Semlyen, Alim Kheraj & Matthew Singer Recommended: 😍 The 100 best romcoms of all-time😳 The 101 best sex scenes of all timeđŸ”„ The 100 best movies of all-time
The best romcoms of all time (updated for 2026)

The best romcoms of all time (updated for 2026)

Updates for 2026: Behold: 30 more of the best romantic comedies ever made! We’ve expanded this list of the all-time greatest romcoms to 100 in order to include recent hits like The Idea of You, Rye Lane and The Worst Person in the World and previously overlooked gems like Crazy, Stupid, Love and How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days. Love hurts. Love scars. Love also makes us act like total imbeciles. Indeed, love can be the most painful of emotions, but it’s also often the funniest. If you’ve ever found yourself in its grip, then you know the strange ways it can make you feel, and the weird things it’ll make you do. And even if you haven’t, well, there’s a whole genre dedicated to letting you know how silly it can be.  No wonder romantic comedy persists as one of the most broadly accessible genres in all of film. So why, then, has Hollywood seemingly stopped making them? At one point in time, romcoms filled cinema calendars. Now, they’re largely relegated to streaming – or, in the case of something like Celine Song’s Materialists, miscategorized. It’s perplexing, because not only are romcoms some of the most you can have with a room full of strangers, but isn’t love one of the most universal human experiences? Of course, not all love stories are the same. Some are farcical, others more sophisticated, some cynical, others straight-up crazy. Love contains multitudes, and so do romantic comedies, and we considered it all when putting together this list of the 100 best romcoms of all tim
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The best comedy movies of all time (updated for 2026)

The best comedy movies of all time (updated for 2026)

Updated February 2026: There’s been a drought of standout studio comedies over the last five to 10 years, which makes the Liam Neeson-starring remake of The Naked Gun even more of a comedic miracle. It joins both the 1988 original and director Akiva Schaffer’s previous spoof, Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping, on our list of the funniest movies ever. Medical professionals agree: laughter is the best medicine. Someone should tell movie studio executives. In the last few years, comedies have all but vanished from cinemas. Once one of Hollywood’s most bankable genres, you’re now lucky to get a small dose of giggles streaming at home. It’s a true shame, because as anyone alive in the Before Times will tell you, there are few experiences better than a theater full of people cracking up in unison.  Slowly but surely, however, the film world might be ready to laugh again. In 2025, absurd farces like the rebooted Naked Gun and Tim Robinson’s Friendship found enthusiastic audiences, and there are a few comedies arriving in 2026 that are worth anticipating. But even if a revival remains elusive, the thing about the greatest comedies is they remain infinitely rewatchable. On this list of the 100 greatest movie comedies ever, all senses of humour are represented: silly and sophisticated, light and dark, surreal and broad. Stream them now – because in this day and age, we could all use a good laugh. Recommended: đŸ”„ The 100 best movies of all-timeđŸ€ŁÂ The best comedies of 2024đŸ„° The greates
The best Italian movies of all time: from ‘Bicycle Thieves’ to ‘The Great Beauty’

The best Italian movies of all time: from ‘Bicycle Thieves’ to ‘The Great Beauty’

As a European filmmaking capital, Italy is second only to France in historical importance. In terms of the kind of movies it’s given the world, though, there may not be a country more diverse. The masterpieces of Italian cinema range from hot-blooded romances to surrealistic dreamscapes, gut-busting commedia d'italia to gritty neorealist docudramas, spaghetti westerns to giallo horror. (Italian-Americans still have the edge on gangster flicks, though the mother nation has produced a few classics of the genre on its own.)  The big names still exert a massive influence on filmmaking culture: Fellini, Visconti, Pasolini, Argento, Leone. But Il Bel Paese is still producing major talents, from Alice Rohrwacher to Paolo Sorrentino. Clearly, narrowing down the greatest Italian movies of all-time is a tall task. But for our lira, these are the 50 best the country has to offer.RECOMMENDED: đŸ“œïžÂ The 50 best foreign-language films ever made.đŸ‡«đŸ‡·Â The greatest French movies of all time.đŸ‡°đŸ‡·Â The best Korean films ever made.

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The best new movies to stream this weekend (February 13)

The best new movies to stream this weekend (February 13)

Streaming ain’t easy. Sure, if you’re a cinephile, practically every movie you could ever want to watch is at your fingertips. But therein lies the problem: knowing what’s out there, and where to find it, can become overwhelming. Here, we’re doing the hard work for you, by cutting through the clutter and getting straight to the best new movies available to watch right now. Here are the four must-watch movies hitting streaming services this weekend.  Recommended: 🏆 The best movies of 2025đŸ—“ïžÂ The most anticipated movies of 2026🆕 What’s new on Netflix in February 2026 1. Sentimental Value (MUBI) A true actors showcase, Joachim Trier’s Oscar-nominated family drama features several of 2025’s best performances, including Stellan SkarsgĂ„rd as an absentee filmmaker father, Renate Reinsve and Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas as his neglected daughters and Elle Fanning as the movie star he tries to mold into their surrogate. It deals with heavy stuff, but it’s not without humour: make sure you’re up on Gaspar Noé’s Irreversible so you can get one of the year’s funniest blink-and-miss-it gags. Read Time Out’s review. Watch Sentimental Value now on MUBI 2. Predator: Badlands (Hulu) In just three years, Dan Trachtenberg has managed to make three of the best movies in the 40-year-old Predator franchise: 2022’s Prey, the direct-to-streaming animation Killer of Killers and this most recent entry, a coming-of-age story with Elle Fanning as a bisected android helping a young alien prove h
Here’s what’s new on Netflix in February 2026: 9 best movies and shows to watch

Here’s what’s new on Netflix in February 2026: 9 best movies and shows to watch

Well, they don’t call it ‘Dumpuary’ for nothing. Yes, that term is usually used for the stuff studios dump out in the doldrums of January, but Netflix looks to be carrying it over to February. No notable new movies or series returns, unless you’re a big fan of The Lincoln Lawyer and The Night Agent – of which there are probably many more than most of us realize. The most promising premiere is probably How to Get Heaven from Belfast, a new limited series from the creator of Derry Girls. Otherwise, it’s niche documentaries as far as the eye can see, covering F1, Gordon Ramsay, Eddie Vedder and chess champion Judit PolgĂĄr. Oh, and of course, just in time for Valentine's Day, yet another season of Love Is Blind, which, come to think of it, might be all you really need this month. What’s new on Netflix February 2026 at a glance: 📍Shows: Love Is Blind (Feb. 11), The Lincoln Lawyer season 4 (Feb. 5), The Night Agent season 3 (Feb. 19) 📍Limited Series: How to Get to Heaven From Belfast (Feb. 12)📍Documentaries: Queen of Chess (Feb. 6), Being Gordon Ramsay (Feb. 18)   Recommended: 🇳 The best movies on NetflixđŸ’»Â The best Netflix original series to bingeđŸ“ș The best TV and streaming shows of 2025 The Lincoln Lawyer season 4 The lawyer becomes the lawyered in the fourth season of this David E Kelley legal drama. Car-based attorney Mickey Haller is framed for murder and must use all his cunning to clear his name against a tough-as-nails DA, played by Constance Zimmer.  Premieres Feb 5
15 adaptaçÔes de livros ao cinema que estamos desejosos de ver em 2026

15 adaptaçÔes de livros ao cinema que estamos desejosos de ver em 2026

Os amantes de livros tĂȘm um ano muito especial pela frente, tanto nas salas de cinema como nas plataformas de streaming. Entre os gigantes da literatura cujas obras vĂŁo ser adaptadas encontram-se Emily BrontĂ«, Margaret Atwood, Enid Blyton, Albert Camus e Don Winslow. Mas o mais excitante de tudo Ă© talvez o regresso do grande mestre da narrativa Ă©pica: Homero vai receber o toque de Christopher Nolan, em versĂŁo IMAX, com a adaptação de A Odisseia, com estreia prevista para o VerĂŁo. BookTokers, façam uma pausa no desafio de leitura de 2026 e vĂŁo ao cinema: este Ă© o vosso momento. O Monte dos Vendavais A adaptação literĂĄria de Emerald Fennell promete lançar um verdadeiro cocktail Molotov sobre o debate cultural do inĂ­cio de 2026. A tĂłrrida histĂłria de amor de Emily BrontĂ« vai receber uma versĂŁo bem Ă  maneira de Fennell, com mĂșsicas de Charli XCX, um elenco de fazer correr tinta (Margot Robbie e Jacob Elordi) e atĂ© aspas provocatĂłrias no tĂ­tulo do cartaz, como se fosse suposto dizĂȘ-lo com ironia. O Monte dos Vendavais pode ser um marco do romantismo literĂĄrio, mas estĂĄ longe de ser propriamente romĂąntico, pelo que o slogan “a maior histĂłria de amor de todos os tempos” poderĂĄ deixar os puristas algo confusos.Estreia: 12 de Fevereiro Abaixo de Zero David Koepp adaptou Parque JurĂĄssico, de Michael Crichton, mas aqui assume o papel de autor-realizador de uma histĂłria muito ao estilo do prĂłprio Crichton. O romance, publicado em 2019 (e dois anos depois em Portugal), parte de uma premi
15 book-to-movie adaptations to get (very) excited about in 2026

15 book-to-movie adaptations to get (very) excited about in 2026

Book lovers have a year to savour in store for them at the movie theatre and on streaming. Among the literary giants having their work adapted are Emily BrontĂ«, Margaret Atwood, Enid Blyton, Albert Camus and Don Winslow. Most excitingly, the big dog of epic storytelling, Homer, is getting the IMAX-enhanced Christopher Nolan treatment with this summer’s adaption of The Odyssey. BookTokers, this is your moment. Photograph: Penguin Classics Wuthering Heights Emerald Fennell’s literary adaptation is sure to lob a Molotov cocktail in the general direction of early 2026’s cultural discourse. Emily Brontë’s toxic love story is getting a proper Fennelling, with Charlie XCX songs, a buzz-worthy cast (Margot Robbie, Jacob Elordi) and provocative quote marks around the title on the poster like you’re supposed to say it in a sarcastic way. Wuthering Heights may be a landmark Romantic novel but it’s not exactly small ’r’ romantic, so that ‘the greatest love story of all time’ tagline may mystify literary types. In cinemas worldwide Feb 13 Photograph: HarperCollins Cold Storage David Koepp adapted Michael Crichton’s Jurassic Park, but the writer-director has his own Crichton-esque monster tale in the shape of his 2019 novel. It delivers a Cold War-era sci-fi premise in a modern setting, with a military facility breach unleashing a parasitic fungus on employees at a self-storage facility. Liam Neeson, Stranger Things’ Joe Keery and Sosie Bacon will be hoping to swerve the blob. The lat
Las mejores películas navideñas de 2025 para ver en 'streaming' entre turrones y panettones

Las mejores películas navideñas de 2025 para ver en 'streaming' entre turrones y panettones

Ya se siente la Navidad, sobre todo en las plataformas de streaming. Cada año, un buen puñado de pelĂ­culas festivas con sabor a roscĂłn salen de la cadena de montaje directas a tu tele (y, de vez en cuando, a los cines). La mayorĂ­a son directamente malas, algunas son tan malas que resultan buenas y unas pocas son realmente buenas
 o, al menos, lo bastante autoconscientes como para ofrecer una noche divertida reunidos alrededor del brillo de la pantalla. MĂĄs raras aĂșn son las que se convierten en autĂ©nticos fenĂłmenos virales. En 2024, la fruta escarchada se la llevĂł Un muñeco de nieve para derretirse, la comedia romĂĄntica invernal de Netflix sobre un muñeco de nieve buenorro que cobra vida. ÂżHay alguna pelĂ­cula del catĂĄlogo de este año que pueda alcanzar ese status? Hemos revisado lo mejorcito de la cosecha navideña de 2025 y las hemos clasificado segĂșn sus posibilidades de ponerse tan de moda como "Frosty", el muñequito de nieve. FotografĂ­a: Chip Bergmann/AMAZON CONTENT SERVICES LLC En busca de Joy (Prime Video) Ideal para: Amantes de Tyler Perry ÂżTyler Perry presentando Misery como una comedia romĂĄntica? En la nueva pelĂ­cula del incansable guionista-director-productor, Shannon Thornton interpreta a una diseñadora de moda neoyorquina insatisfecha con la trayectoria de su carrera que sigue a su crush hasta Colorado, solo para acabar derrapando en una carretera helada, donde es rescatada por un ermitaño sorprendentemente guapo, interpretado por Tosin Morohunfola. ÂżLe ens
The best new Christmas movies of 2025 to stream

The best new Christmas movies of 2025 to stream

It’s beginning to feel a lot like Christmas, especially on streaming services. Every year, a stuffed stocking’s worth of peppermint-sweet holiday flicks roll off the assembly line and onto your television (and occasionally theaters). Most are straight-up bad, some are so-bad-they’re-good, and a select few are genuinely good – or at least, self-aware enough to make for a fun night gathered ‘round the glow of the TV set. Rarer still are those which become legit viral phenomenons. In 2024, that was Hot Frosty, Netflix’s winking winter romcom about a hunky snowman come to life. Are there any films from this year’s slate that might attain the same status? We’ve perused the cream of the 2025 yuletide crop, and ranked them by their chances to get as hot as Frosty.  Recommended: đŸŽ…đŸ»The best Christmas movies of all-time🎄The best Christmas movies for kids to watch this year🎁The best Christmas specials of all-time Photograph: Chip Bergmann/AMAZON CONTENT SERVICES LLC Tyler Perry's Finding Joy (Prime Video) Ideal for: Tyler Perry completists Tyler Perry presents Misery as a romcom? In the indefatigable writer-director-producer’s latest, Shannon Thornton is a New York fashion designer dissatisfied with her career trajectory who follows her crush to Colorado, only to wind up skidding off an icy road where she’s rescued by an improbably handsome hermit, played by Tosin Morohunfola. Will this rugged mountain man teach her to appreciate the things that truly matter in life? No spoilers!
Les 10 meilleurs films d’horreur à voir pour Halloween 2025

Les 10 meilleurs films d’horreur à voir pour Halloween 2025

Halloween ne tombe qu’un jour par an, mais les plus fervents adeptes de la fĂȘte trouvent toujours le moyen d’en faire un mois entier. Et quoi de mieux pour ça que de se plonger dans des films ? Rien de plus simple, aprĂšs tout : il existe tout un genre cinĂ©matographique consacrĂ© Ă  l’art de faire hurler les spectateurs de peur. Mais contrairement Ă  ce qu’on croit souvent, il y a une vraie diffĂ©rence entre les meilleurs films d’horreur et les meilleurs films d’Halloween. Un film comme Ne vous retournez pas (Don’t Look Now) figure peut-ĂȘtre parmi les Ɠuvres les plus bouleversantes du genre, mais il est sans doute un peu trop cĂ©rĂ©bral pour la « saison des frissons ». En revanche, les apocalypses zombies, histoires de fantĂŽmes, massacres Ă  la tronçonneuse et mĂ©langes de monstres ? LĂ , on est pile dans le thĂšme. Alors, pour vous aider Ă  composer votre programme d’octobre, on a concocté cette liste de films d’Halloween Ă  voir le 31 au soir. Suspiria (1977) Sur le papier, le conte macabre de Dario Argento ne paie pas de mine : une danseuse amĂ©ricaine timide intĂšgre une mystĂ©rieuse acadĂ©mie de ballet en Europe, oĂč d’étranges phĂ©nomĂšnes ne tardent pas Ă  se manifester. Mais ce point de dĂ©part simple permet au maĂźtre du giallo de s’en donner Ă  cƓur joie : couleurs hallucinĂ©es, mises Ă  mort stylisĂ©es, et bande-son cauchemardesque signĂ©e par les rockeurs progressifs italiens Goblin. Un cauchemar baroque qui hante encore les nuits des cinĂ©philes. Shining (1980) Si vous ne revoyez pas Shini
Netflix phenomenon ‘KPop Demon Hunters’ is returning to theaters on Halloween

Netflix phenomenon ‘KPop Demon Hunters’ is returning to theaters on Halloween

Somehow haven’t gotten enough of KPop Demon Hunters? Correction: have your kids still not gotten enough?  Well, if you missed catching the animated musical sensation in theaters during its limited run in August, you’re in luck, because it’s coming back to cinemas, just in time for Halloween. Starting October 31, the movie will screen in select theaters in several countries, including the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada and Australia. And yes, singing along is once again encouraged – and given the time period, so are costumes. Initially released on Netflix back in June, the film, focusing on a mega-popular girl group who are also charged with protecting humanity from soul-sucking, shapeshifting beasties, came out of nowhere to become an almost instant phenomenon. It’s now officially the most popular movie in the history of the platform, topping 325,100,000 views. Four songs from the soundtrack, including the inescapable chart-topper ‘Golden’, occupied the Billboard Top 10 simultaneously, while the vocal trio of EJAE, AUDREY NUNA, and REI AMI recently made their live debut on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon. Tickets for the upcoming screenings go on sale October 17 at 6 am. Find a screening nearest you here. Best to act fast: the movie will only be in theaters for three days, ending November 2. Then you’ll have to go back to singing alone in your home on an endless loop. The best family movies of 2025 (so far) The best Halloween movies for kids on Netflix
A new Taylor Swift documentary and concert film are coming to Disney+

A new Taylor Swift documentary and concert film are coming to Disney+

If you’re like most Taylor Swift fans, you simply cannot get enough content from your queen. Good thing, then, that she seemingly never stops cranking it out. Not only did she just release her sixth album in seven years, the record-breaking The Lift of a Showgirl – available in 27 different physical variations – it coincided with both a box-office-topping cinematic event, a two-part Channel 4 documentary and the announcement of her engagement to football player Travis Kelce, whose eventual wedding will almost certainly produce a tidal wave of content on its own. Now, the pop megastar has two more film projects guaranteed to capture untold millions of eyeballs. Not even a year after her world-dominating Eras Tour finally ended, a six-part docuseries chronicling the production of her globe-spanning, generation-defining, economy-shifting concert tour is coming to Disney+. According to a press release, The End of an Era ‘gives an intimate look at Taylor’s life as her tour made headlines and thrilled fans around the world’ and features cameos from contemporaries such as Gracie Abrams, Sabrina Carpenter, Ed Sheeran and Florence Welch. (What, no Charli XCX?) The doc premieres December 12 – the day before Swift’s 36th birthday – with two episodes dropping each week. The same day, Disney+ will also debut The Eras Tour: The Final Show, a full concert film indeed shot at the final stop of the 149-date tour, at BC Place Stadium in Vancouver, Canada, on December 8, 2024. You might
L’un des films d’horreur les plus attendus de l’annĂ©e arrive sur Netflix ce week-end

L’un des films d’horreur les plus attendus de l’annĂ©e arrive sur Netflix ce week-end

Eh bien, il n’aura pas fallu 28 ans, ni mĂȘme 28 semaines : l’un des meilleurs films d’horreur de l’annĂ©e dĂ©barque dĂ©jĂ  sur une plateforme de streaming. 28 Ans plus tard, le retour du rĂ©alisateur Danny Boyle et du scĂ©nariste Alex Garland dans un monde ravagĂ© par le tristement cĂ©lĂšbre virus de la Rage, arrive sur Netflix en France ce samedi 20 septembre. Techniquement, c’est le troisiĂšme volet de la saga entamĂ©e en 2002 avec 28 Days Later, suivi en 2007 par 28 Weeks Later du rĂ©alisateur espagnol Juan Carlos Fresnadillo. Mais ce nouvel Ă©pisode prend quelques libertĂ©s, allant jusqu’à effacer une partie des Ă©vĂ©nements du prĂ©cĂ©dent film. SituĂ© prĂšs de trois dĂ©cennies aprĂšs l’apparition du virus – qui transforme les infectĂ©s en machines Ă  tuer convulsives et ultra-rapides – le film dĂ©peint des Ăźles Britanniques mises en quarantaine du reste du monde, revenues Ă  une forme de stabilitĂ©, certes primitive mais fonctionnelle. L’intrigue suit une famille en particulier : Aaron Taylor-Johnson incarne le patriarche, le jeune Alfie Williams son fils, et Jodie Comer la mĂšre de ce dernier, rongĂ©e par une mystĂ©rieuse maladie. Ce qui commence comme une aventure initiatique de survie bascule, dans sa seconde moitiĂ©, en une mĂ©ditation profondĂ©ment Ă©mouvante sur l’acceptation de la mort comme partie intĂ©grante de la vie. PortĂ© par une bande-annonce dĂ©jĂ  culte, 28 Ans plus tard est sorti en salles en juin et a cartonnĂ© au box-office, engrangeant 151 244 007 dollars dans le monde. CĂŽtĂ© criti
One of the year’s most hyped horror films is coming to Netflix this weekend

One of the year’s most hyped horror films is coming to Netflix this weekend

Well, it didn’t take 28 years, or even weeks, but one of the year’s best horror films is already arriving on a streaming service. 28 Years Later, director Danny Boyle and screenwriter Alex Garland’s return to a world ravaged by the so-called Rage virus, hits Netflix in the United States this coming weekend, on Saturday, September 20. It’s technically the third film in the series, which started with Boyle’s 28 Days Later in 2002 and was followed up in 2007 by 28 Weeks Later, from Spanish director Juan Carlos Fresnadillo, although the newest movie does much to undo the events of the latter. Indeed set nearly three decades after the onset of the virus, which turns the infected into twitchy, fast-moving killing machines, the movie finds the British Isles quarantined from the rest of the world, having returned to a somewhat stable if primitive way of life. It focuses on one family in particular, with Aaron Taylor-Johnson as the patriarch, young Alfie Williams as his son, and Jodie Comer as the latter’s mother, who’s suffering from a mysterious illness. What starts as a coming-of-age survival adventure slows in the second half into a deeply emotional meditation on accepting death as a part of life.  Preceded by an all-time great trailer, 28 Years Later arrived in theaters in June and was a box office hit, pulling in $151,244,007 worldwide. It was also a critical favourite, with an 89 percent Fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes.  In a mixed review, Time Out praised the action-fi
Who is the new James Bond currently favourite to be the next 007 after Daniel Craig?

Who is the new James Bond currently favourite to be the next 007 after Daniel Craig?

Gentlemen, rev your Aston Martins and start shaking those martinis, because a new James Bond is on the horizon. Menthol smoke has not yet started billowing out of MGM Studios – the traditional indication that the next 007 has been chosen – with Daniel Craig’s likely replacement still a mystery. What does this mean for the future of the iconic British spy series and its upcoming 26th instalment? Information is limited, but here’s what we know so far.  What does Amazon MGM Studios’ takeover mean for the next James Bond? After months of rumour and speculation, James Bond finally got a new boss in February 2025. Not M, but Amazon MGM Studios who sealed a deal with 007’s producers, Eon’s Barbara Broccoli and Michael G Wilson, to take creative control of the franchise.  Broccoli and Wilson will remain co-owners of James Bond but crucially, will step back from controlling the future direction or execution of the franchise. ‘With the conclusion of No Time to Die and Michael retiring from the films, I feel it is time to focus on my other projects,’ Broccoli said in a statement.So what does it all mean for 007? We’re probably a step closer to a release date for Bond 26 and the announcement of a new James Bond to star in it. Maybe a radical change of direction for the whole franchise, too, with immediate speculation that Amazon will look to spin their expensive new IP into the kind of shared universe storytelling that Disney pursued with Lucasfilm and Star Wars after its takeover. Is a